"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.""Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.""Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

Comet Elenin Cataclysms?
* I'm just cross-referencing this. Komorikid mentioned this interesting video http://www.youtube.com/user/markinportl ... nG8Pa0u-4U on the Comet Elenin thread yesterday.
* The video suggests that the comet may actually be a brown dwarf star, although I don't know of any evidence of that. The evidence that the video does show is that Comet Elenin apparently triggered solar flares when it aligned with Earth and the Sun 3 different times and the solar flares then caused major earthquakes each time, first in Chile, then New Zealand and finally Japan. The next alignments will be on Sep. 27 and Nov. 5 and the next earthquake may occur in California, if the pattern continues. Earth may also encounter cometary debris starting around Oct. 17.

may be harbouring two supersized planet just out of reach of our telescopes.

We see images of very small rocks, why can't they calculate where the large planets should be and image that area?

If they can't find a gravitational reason for what they observe, then maybe they need to look for another cause.

"It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.""Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.""Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire

Sparky wrote:If they can't find a gravitational reason for what they observe, then maybe they need to look for another cause.

Ultra-miniature black holes? Maybe there are clouds of Dark Matter hovering in the right place? How's that for "non-gravitational" explanations? A cosmic string? A "membrane" intersecting our universe just outside the Solar system!

Considering the wacky acrobatics of Pluto's satellites, is it possible an electrically-related explanation might explain both? If Sedna and company are "trojan point" or shepherded moons of a massive planet, one would think other sky surveys (IR?) might have found said planet by now.

Metryq wrote:Considering the wacky acrobatics of Pluto's satellites, is it possible an electrically-related explanation might explain both? If Sedna and company are "trojan point" or shepherded moons of a massive planet, one would think other sky surveys (IR?) might have found said planet by now.

Yes, there is an EU solution to this, and it has come up quite a while ago (before the mainstream even noticed the issue, or suggested it may be due to a gravitational long period binary.

First, notice that this independent researcher observed the relationship of perihelions some years ago.http://www.binaryresearchinstitute.org/ ... arch.shtml it's tucked away as an afterthought in the last paragraph. Perihelions clustering in the direction of Sirius. What is more, that link is from the
Binary Research Institute. The head of that Institute (another person well outside the mainstream), was already positing an object in a 24,000yr orbit as a solution to this. In other words, this whole idea of these aligned orbits being caused by the gravitational pull of some long period binary is only "news" in the mainstream. Finally, notice that the orbit that the mainstream is looking for,has a highly inclined aphelion, and a very long period. In other words, what they are looking for is a planet that "hangs out" in a near polar configuration. Again, it is only new material for the mainstream.

Ironically, the reason those independent researchers failed, was because they tried to keep too much of the mainstream model, They were convinced that only gravitational forces could explain orbits. Therefore, they never bothered to note that Sirius merely marks the antapex of the sun's way along these filamentary "gas clouds"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Int ... arrows.jpg

When we apply Donald Scott's model to these "gas clouds" we find that: 1. the more elliptical an orbit, the more inclined it should be. and 2. perihelion points should lag in the sun's direction of motion, while aphelion points lead.

Again, it's just sad to see:
Independent researchers make an interesting observation, and come up with a proposed solution. Nobody listens. Then years later, the mainstream comes up with the same observation (spatial correlation of perihelions), and proposes the same solution (object in tens of thousands of years orbit), and all of a sudden it's news splashed around the net.